Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

Kids learn to read, and then they read to learn. That’s the saying, at least, and even if the reality is more complicated ...

Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...

Children who are struggling to learn to read often need intervention—targeted instruction beyond what they receive in class to help grow their skills. But not every intervention is a good one, says ...

Nationally, fourth grade students’ reading scores have been sliding for a long time.  But in the past five years, Louisiana ...

Milwaukee is facing a significant reading crisis affecting the majority of its students. Milwaukee education and civic leaders have formed a new coalition to unite various school sectors on this issue ...

As poverty rates rise, reading proficiency rates tend to fall. But poverty is not destiny, and some schools and districts hugely outperform what might be expected of them based solely on which ...

Kids' reading scores across the country and in New York remain chronically and stubbornly low. A recent national report shows high school seniors are reading at lower levels than at any time since at ...